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“I am one by myself, one, said Mortimer, "high up an awful staircase commanding a burial-ground, and I have a whole clerk to myself, and he has nothing to do but look at the burial-ground, and what he will turn out when arrived at maturity, I cannot conceive. Whether, in that shabby rook's nest, he is always plotting wisdom, or plotting murder; whether he will grow up, after so much solitary brooding, to enlighten his fellow-creatures, or to poison them; is the only speck of interest that presents itself to my professional view."”
Charles Dickens
“Those who can command themselves command others.”
William Hazlitt
“We were not born to sue, but to command.”
William Shakespeare
“Whatever the Command of Lord and Master is, one should bow his forehead and accept it”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“An obedient wife commands her husband”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.”
Charley Reese
“And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.”
Bible
“There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.”
Charles Buck
“My vision for this book and the others in the series is to let people know what kind of commanders we have, ... You don't pick generals off park benches. ... They are experts at what they do and lot of thinking goes into it. And I want to get across to people the intellectual dimension of command, to let people know that it's hard to be a general. And the people we have with general stars on their shoulders are pretty smart and pretty good guys.”
Tom Clancy
“Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.”
Walter Kaufmann
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